Animals Puzzle

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A small amount of liquid food (7)
  2. 7. Large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere (8)
  3. 8. Tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills (11)
  4. 10. The fur of the North American racoon (7)
  5. 11. Large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots (7)

Down

  1. 1. Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles (9)
  2. 2. European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song (11)
  3. 3. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion (5)
  4. 5. Either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber (6)
  5. 6. Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans (8)
  6. 9. Long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call (6)